The History of British India, المجلد 9James Madden; Piper, Stephenson and Spence, 1858 |
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الصفحة 25 - The English are the inhabitants of a small and remote island. What business have they to come in ships from so great a distance to dethrone kings, and take possession of countries they have no right to ? They contrive to conquer and govern the black strangers with caste (Hindus) who have puny frames and no courage.
الصفحة 185 - Hindu persuasions, the laws of those religions shall not be permitted to operate to deprive such party or parties of any property to which but for the operation of such laws they would have been entitled.
الصفحة 361 - Church of Scotland, such sums of money as may be expedient for the purpose of instruction or for the maintenance of places of worship.
الصفحة 205 - Oriental works ; his Lordship in Council directs that no portion of the funds shall hereafter be so employed. 4th — His Lordship in Council directs that all the funds which these reforms will leave at the disposal of the Committee be henceforth employed in imparting to the native population a knowledge of English literature and science through the medium of the English language...
الصفحة 179 - ... nothing but the apprehension of evils infinitely greater than those arising from the existence of the practice could induce us to tolerate it for a single day.
الصفحة 123 - Bengal army, and to the renown of splendid achievements he added, by the attainment of the highest honours of the Military Order of the Bath, the singular felicity of opening to his gallant companions an access to those tokens of royal favour which are the dearest objects of a soldier's ambition.
الصفحة 185 - ... of such persons, not for the deprivation of the rights of others. Whenever, therefore, in any civil suit, the parties to such suit may be of different persuasions...
الصفحة 266 - CHAP. vi". subsiSt between the contracting parties; and that 1828-35. they should never " look with a covetous eye on the possessions of each other...
الصفحة 339 - We are so much aware of the difficulty of divesting a friendly communication to a weaker power of the character of authority, and are so apprehensive that the consequence of pressing upon the vizier the consideration of those claims might bring upon him others from various quarters, that we direct you to rest contented with the attempt you have already made, and to abstain from any similar proceedings hereafter...
الصفحة 323 - Charter, differ materially from each other, as well in point of principle as in their details and results, and show the extreme difficulty, or rather the impossibility, of arriving at any certain conclusion upon a point of which the accounts, whence the statements are drawn, do not afford either the perfect illustration or the proof.